Thursday, April 7, 2011

Date Filled Cookies

My daughter loves sandwich cookies a lot. I got the basic recipe from a cookbook and tweaked it to include some healthy ingredients.


Ingredients
All purpose flour: 1 cup
Powdered Sugar: 1/4 cup
Brown Sugar: 1/4 cup
Vanilla extract: 1 tsp
Butter: 1/2 cup (1 stick)


For filling
Chopped dates: 1/2 cup
Water: 1 cup
Sugar: 1 tablespoon


Procedure:
Step1:
Beat the butter and both the sugar together until light and fluffy


Step2:
Add the flour and vanilla extract and knead it to dough


Step3:
Wrap the dough in cling wrap and refrigerate for 40 minutes so that it becomes easy to work with


Step4:
Meanwhile mix the chopped dates, water and sugar in a medium sauce pan.Bring to a boil and then simmer in low flame for 10 minutes.The filling will thicken once it cools.


Step5:
Divide the dough into 26 balls and flatten each of them to circles


Step6:
Using a cookie cutter cut half of the circles in the center


Step7:
Fill the dates filling in a full circle and place the cut circle on top of it and seal it using fork


Step8:
Bake the cookies in a preheated oven of 325 F for 15 minutes or until light brown


Tip:
Use the cut cookies and bake them as thumb print cookies with the date filling



26 comments:

  1. Interesting recipe! Wish I could have some now...

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  2. cute looking cookies and love the heart shape.

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  3. Yummy and healthy cookies dear... Perfect for kids...

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  4. Pass me some dear...they look super delicious...

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  5. Love the addition of dates in it. Cookies look very cute

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  6. Adorable cookies! Kids will surely gobble all of them!

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  7. Interesting and healthy recipe.. looks yummy !!
    Indian Cuisine

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  8. very cute and I love dates in any form!!!!

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  9. yummy and healthy cookies :)

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  11. So pretty cookies !! So healthy and delicious !!

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  12. Yum Yum....Cookies look delicious...

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  13. lovely heart shape cookies you made..

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  14. Yummy and healthy. Perfectly baked.

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  15. Awesome cookies, I to add dates in cookies.

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  16. wow what a healthy and beautiful cookie.

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  17. cute cookies! Wish I could grab one from the picture

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  18. wow..cute cookies....looks so tempting and delicious

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  19. recipe looks great and easy! Any substitute for the powder sugar?

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